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<h2>Setting Message of the Day options</h2>

<p>On this page:</p>



<ul><li><a href="#myworkspace">Setting Message of the Day options in your
My Workspace</a> 
</li><li><a href="#admin">Setting MOTD (Message of the Day) options as a
site administrator</a></li></ul>

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<p><strong>Note:</strong> To complete the procedures in this
document, you must be assigned a role having the necessary
permissions.  To determine your role, follow the directions in <a href="content.hlp?docId=arbu">Participant roles</a>.  For a
basic understanding of roles and permissions, see <a href="content.hlp?docId=arax">Permissions and roles: Overview</a>.</p>

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<h4>Setting Message of the Day options in
your My Workspace</h4>

<p>In the Home tool of your <a href="content.hlp?docId=aqzy">My Workspace</a>, you will see
announcements from all the sites to which you belong. The Message of
the Day options control how many announcements appear in this
space.</p>

<p>To set Message of the Day options for your My Workspace, follow
these steps:</p>

<ol><li>In My Workspace, click <strong><code>Home</code></strong>. <br /><br />
</li><li> Under "Message of the Day", click <strong><code>Options</code></strong>. <br /><br />
</li><li>You can choose to show only the subject of the recent
announcements from the sites to which you belong (<strong><code>Show
announcement subject</code></strong>) or show the entire text of the
announcements (<strong><code>Show announcement body</code></strong>). Additional options
for displaying announcements include how many lines to display, how many
days in the past to display announcements from, and the number of
announcements. Enter or choose your
desired options in the boxes provided, and then click <strong><code>Update</code></strong>.
</li></ol>


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<h4>Setting MOTD options as a site administrator</h4>

<p>To set MOTD options for a site as a site administrator, follow
these steps:</p>

<p><strong>Note:</strong> To use this tool, you must have
administrator rights. </p>

<ol><li>In My Workspace, click <strong><code>MOTD</code></strong>. <br /><br />
</li><li>At the top of the screen, click <strong><code>Options</code></strong>. <br /><br />
</li><li>Choose your desired options for how you want announcements to
display, and then click <strong><code>Update</code></strong>.
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